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Connect with us! Legacy offers many opportunities throughout the year to join us at a workday or event. We hope you will join us for one soon. Most opportunities require an RSVP. A link to RSVP is included with each detailed event listing. This helps us communicate with you about the event or inform you of a cancellation or postponement.
If you have a question about an upcoming event, please contact our office at 734.302.5263.
Curious about Legacy’s newest preserve? Want to get a sneak peek before the property is open to the broader public? Come help pull garlic mustard, and hear about Legacy’s newest preserve acquisition! On May 17th from 10am-noon, Legacy Land Conservancy will be leading a workday at Iron Creek Preserve. Join us to help remove the […]
Join us on Saturday, June 14th from 10 to noon for a hike and BioBlitz at Sharon Hills Preserve! A BioBlitz is an intense period of biological surveying in an attempt to record all the living species within a designated area. It is similar to a biological inventory conducted by scientists, but open to everyone. […]
Join Legacy Land Conservancy for the grand opening of Iron Creek Preserve! We're excited to celebrate this special occasion with you. Enjoy guided hikes, light refreshments, and a ribbon cutting ceremony as we officially open this beautiful natural space to the community. Event Address: 11703 Noggles Rd, Manchester, MI 48158 Event Date/Time: Saturday, June 28 […]
Join us to help remove invasive woody species. Volunteers will cut back shrubs to two-inch stumps and help haul cut plant material. Stumps will be treated by Legacy staff to ensure these hardy invasive plants don't re-sprout in the spring. Please dress for the weather and in clothes you don't mind getting dirty. Pants and […]
Join us for a rare opportunity to walk the land with Sybil Kolon—longtime steward, storyteller, and donor of the beautiful Iron Creek Preserve. Experience a four-part guided walk series that travels backward through the layers of human history etched into the landscape. Over the course of four months (Aug. 13, Sept. 10, Oct. 8, and […]
Interested in getting baaaaaaack to nature with some furry farm friends? Want to explore the intersection of animal husbandry and land stewardship? Volunteer with Legacy Land Conservancy to help maintain a mobile sheep herd that will be eating woody invasive plants on the Lloyd and Mabel Johnson Preserve! Take part in a week-long volunteer opportunity […]